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Your Life Is Important – Fight For Yourself

When the author was about to give up but life was stubborn and won’t let him go. He learnt to fight for his life.

Do you ever feel that your life isn’t important and you want to just consider that you should just drift into nothingness?

Fight For Your Life : My Story

Well, let me tell you a story.

When I was in high school in class 11, I decided that science was difficult and I wanted to just avoid everything and drift into nothingness.

I used to miss school and play video games all day. 

I also failed in class 11 because of that. 

And then I realized when I was admitted to class 11 again in another school that life isn’t so easy to avoid.

Life’s stubborn and it won’t just let you go and drift into nothingness.

And so what I want to tell you is – your life is important and you should not want to drift into nothingness or avoid life like I did once.

Fight for yourself. Fight for your life. Fight for your survival.

Be Selfish If You Have To

Sometimes it may look “selfish” to want to give importance to your own life.

But that’s okay.

Sometimes being selfish is good. 

And if it is to survive that you’re being selfish then it’s a 100% correct way to act.

Be selfish and affirm your life’s needs. Fight for your life.

Also there has been many other instances of me trying to avoid life. 

But luckily I’m here on the other end of survival – living.

And sometimes I also feel like I’m being selfish for living or trying to survive. 

But to state my needs is necessary and it’s the right thing to do to survive.

“Your life is important. Honor it. Fight for your highest possibilities.” 

-Nathaniel Branden, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

And you need to realize that you need to survive and get better.

You need to improve your mental health and you need to fight for yourself.

You’re The Arjuna Of Your Own Life

In the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna had to fight not just for the Pandavas but also for himself. 

He had to believe in himself. And fight the battle of Kurukshetra.

You are also an Arjuna in your life and the Bhagavad Gita is the words of Lord Krishna. 

But setting aside all philosophical debates, you need to fight for yourself.

You need to fight your battle of Kurukshetra. 

It may not be with swords or bows but it’s definitely true that your life itself is a battlefield where you need to fight by motivating yourself where you are your greatest enemy.

Conclusion

So yeah your life is important and you shouldn’t want to drift into nothingness.

Please please please fight for yourself, with reason, with logic, with your mind, your thoughts, your beliefs but don’t give up. 

Never never never give up!!!

Thank you for reading this line! It means a lot.

Why Do Some People Act Selfishly?

We all know people who act selfishly. Do you ever wonder why they do it?

I will answer this question here.

I want to start with a story. 

Story

I had a friend who lied a lot. He manipulated me and other people. 

When I first met him, he seemed like a smart person. He had exceptional people skills. 

We quickly became friends because we agreed on most things. 

One day, after a few weeks of friendship, we were returning by metro train. And he started smoking behind a pillar in the metro station area.

I was not aware of the presence of policeofficers in the area. So I asked if I could smoke as well. He handed me the cigarette and I took a puff. 

Then suddenly he hinted to me that a policeofficer was coming. I quickly dropped the cigarette into the drain near the pillar. 

The policeofficer only saw me smoking because I was not hidden by the pillar. 

He took me to the office and asked for a fine of Rs.250. 

I gave him the money, and he let me go.

Then my friend and I went to catch the metro toward home. 

A few weeks after that, we parted ways because of his lying. 

When I look back now, I wonder why he lied so much and manipulated me and other people.

I wonder if he wanted me to go to jail over smoking a cigarette. I wonder if he started smoking intentionally.

He used to tell me to not be so simple. He would mock me, saying that people used me and manipulated me. 

I will not jump to conclusions, but the thing that fascinates me is the reason why some people act so selfishly, in such evil, and so manipulative manners. It’s as if they are the messengers of the devil himself.

But then I catch myself judging, and I ask myself, “How have I ever done similar evil things? How have I lied, manipulated or done selfish and evil things? Why did I do them?”

I don’t know the answer as of now. But one of my goals is to know why people act in selfish ways.

The reason I wrote this blog post is to make you wonder- if evil exists, where does it exist? If people act selfishly, why do they do it? 

My intuition tells me that evil comes from ourselves. 

Conclusion

I think evil comes from thinking that you are separate from God. I don’t know what an “evil” minded person thinks or believes, but I know that when I do something bad, I believe that I am separate from God, that I am mortal, that I need to snatch my bread from others, I need to do whatever it takes to survive in this brutal world.

And that’s all nonsense. You are not separate from God. You are immortal.

Thank you for reading this blog post. Please comment on why you think some people act selfishly?